AMENDMENTS TO THE DECREE ON THE ACCOUNTING AND DISTRIBUTION
OF ORES AND METALS¹.
21. VIII. 1918

1. 
[supplement to the decision of the Supreme Council of the National Economy of December 18, 1917,]
The Council of People's Commissars
decrees [confirms] that
all ferrous, non-ferrous metals, alloys and heavy ores, as well as the accounting,
distribution, transport and requisition of them¹, that the accounting and distribution
among all
institutions and enterprises of all
ferrous, non-ferrous metals, alloys and heavy ores shall be
subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Subsection
for Accounting, Distribution and Sale of Heavy Ores and Metals ("Prodrasmet") under the Department
of Metals of the Supreme Council of the National Economy.

2. Consequently, all state, public and
private organizations and persons, regardless of citizenship (nationality)*, must
submit to the directives of the aforementioned Subsection and present to it the necessary data in fulfillment
of the tasks assigned to it.

3. Institutions, organizations and persons acting contrary
to the present decree shall be brought to trial and punished
with all the severity of revolutionary law, [as violating the
work of the regulatory organs of the state and undermining its
economy at the root**.]

Chairman of the Council
of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

The document is printed from the original, typewritten. The amendments and date are written by Lenin in ink. The draft decree was discussed and approved at the session of the Council of People's Commissars on August 27, 1918. The decree was published in "Izvestiya of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee" No. 186 of August 30, 1918 under the heading: "On the Concentration of Accounting and Distribution of Metals under the Jurisdiction of the Subsection for Accounting, Distribution and Sale of Heavy Ores and Metals under the Department of Metals of the Supreme Council of the National Economy."

* The word "nationality" is placed in brackets by Lenin. Ed.
¹ In the original: a typographical error: "petitioning." Ed.